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Earth records third-hottest year in 2025 as global heat streak grows

France, Jan. 14 -- The past 11 years are now the warmest ever recorded, with 2024 the hottest and 2023 in second place, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service and the US-based research group Berke... Read More


AI-powered Islamic digital bank Mal bags $230 mn in seed funding

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Serial entrepreneur Abdallah Abu-Sheikh's latest venture Mal, an artificial intelligence-powered Islamic digital bank, has raised $230 million in what is being billed as the larg... Read More


Nigeria hires US firm to court Trump amid US strike threats

Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- The administration of President Bola Tinubu has approved a $4.5 million lobbying contract with a Republican-linked firm in Washington as it seeks to ease mounting pressure from the... Read More


Trump gestures obscenely at autoworker amid renewed Epstein files controversy

Bangladesh, Jan. 14 -- A brief but highly publicized confrontation between US President Donald Trump and a factory worker during a visit to a Ford Motor Company plant in Michigan has reignited politic... Read More


Tinubu administration pays Republican strategist $9 million to appease Trump amid US strike threats - Report

Nigeria, Jan. 14 -- The administration of President Bola Tinubu has approved a $9 million lobbying contract with a Republican-linked firm in Washington as it seeks to ease mounting pressure from the U... Read More


South-East Asia marks 15 years without wild poliovirus case

Kathmandu, Jan. 14 -- Fifteen years after recording its last case of wild poliovirus, the WHO South-East Asia Region with a quarter of the world's population, continues to sustain its polio-free statu... Read More


Trump calls Renee Nicole Good a 'solid, wonderful person,' sends message to her father

India, Jan. 14 -- President Donald Trump called Renee Nicole Good a "wonderful person" in his latest remarks about the ICE killing, and sent a message to her father. Good, a 37-year-old mother of thre... Read More


Mint Quick Edit | Trump's Iran tariff threat puts more at risk than the White House may have realized

New Delhi, Jan. 14 -- Even as US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor struck a positive note on bilateral ties, President Donald Trump has again put India in a difficult position by announcing a 25% tariff ... Read More


Critical mineral supply chains' boost vital for electronics sector: Vaishnaw

Washington DC, Jan. 14 -- Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday joined finance ministers from 10 countries at a multinational meeting in Washington to discuss strengthening critical minerals suppl... Read More


Religious leaders unite against terrorism, announce Peace DayPublished on: January 14, 2026 6:26 PM

Pakistan, Jan. 14 -- Religious leaders in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa united to condemn terrorism, calling it un-Islamic and a threat to national harmony. The National Peace Message Committee held a press conf... Read More